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Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by senttoschool »

ramraj07 wrote: post #14
acters wrote: post #2

This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.

I actually started going directly to the Reddit app and finding the relevant subreddit and searching within it - hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting on but I doubt it.

>hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting on but I doubt it.

They do now and the first thing they want to do is to sell their content to AI labs for millions/year.

Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by paulddraper »

acters wrote: post #2

This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.

I find myself doing that.

Reddit

GitHub

Stackoverflow

Even Hacker News

Quality goes way way up depending on topic.

I kinda wish Google would apply some more personalized ML to my searches

Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by deafpolygon »

ramraj07 wrote: post #14
acters wrote: post #2

This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.

I actually started going directly to the Reddit app and finding the relevant subreddit and searching within it - hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting on but I doubt it.

Don't worry - it knows. Reddit wants to extract the value asap. I'm pretty sure they're looking to liquidate Reddit and go big on AI.

Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by binkHN »

mu53 wrote: post #20

Monopolization effects from social networks is so powerful. I really wish decentralization would take off again, but it's a vicious cycle. Search incentives SEO hacking. SEO hacking causes searches engines to stick to weigh reputation scores more. Reputation scores favor large social media platforms that have strong moderation practices. Quora, reddit, and other platforms become more valuable than SEO hacked blog spa…

> Quora

This has to be one of these most useless sites on the Internet and it blows my mind how frequently the content from this site is exposed via Google search. Now that I think about it, I think I should probably just block it on my local DNS server.

Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by rchaud »

bagacrap wrote: post #3
acters wrote: post #2

This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.

Plenty of paid content on the mattress subs and I'm sure many others

Rule of thumb: if they advertise on podcasts, they're astroturfing on Reddit too.

Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by hedora »

paulddraper wrote: post #22
acters wrote: post #2

This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.

I find myself doing that. Reddit GitHub Stackoverflow Even Hacker News Quality goes way way up depending on topic. I kinda wish Google would apply some more personalized ML to my searches

I use duck duck go, and haven’t had to resort to that.

Anyway, I can’t think of any searches where appending stuff like that wouldn’t be universally beneficial (or detrimental), so I don’t see the personalization angle.

Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by 16bitvoid »

anenefan wrote: post #13
marcellus23 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the results are inaccessible during the blackout.

Ouch a couple of people didn't like my straightforward observation. The thing is google is still working just as it was ... the fact the results are dead atm is beside the point. A person visiting old bookmarks to reddits that are unavailable at the moment could say the same, their bookmarks aren't working. I wouldn't author an article about bookmarks not working as such ...

The point of the article is that many people rely on Reddit being a major source in Google results (i.e., appending "reddit" to a search) because of how terrible Google's "organic" results have become with ad and SEO spam.

Yes, Google is working as normal, but "normal" is terrible and posts on Reddit made Google results less terrible. If Google's results are so bad that I feel the need to limit the results to Reddit, then it's probably a problem with Google and the type of sites that it has incentivized over the years (i.e., spam).

Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by oilchange »

anenefan wrote: post #13
marcellus23 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the results are inaccessible during the blackout.

Ouch a couple of people didn't like my straightforward observation. The thing is google is still working just as it was ... the fact the results are dead atm is beside the point. A person visiting old bookmarks to reddits that are unavailable at the moment could say the same, their bookmarks aren't working. I wouldn't author an article about bookmarks not working as such ...

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Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

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Post by Osiris »

hedora wrote: post #27
paulddraper wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find myself doing that. Reddit GitHub Stackoverflow Even Hacker News Quality goes way way up depending on topic. I kinda wish Google would apply some more personalized ML to my searches

I use duck duck go, and haven’t had to resort to that. Anyway, I can’t think of any searches where appending stuff like that wouldn’t be universally beneficial (or detrimental), so I don’t see the personalization angle.

They just use Bing user the hood and the results are awful. I use some browsers that default to Bing/DuckDuckGo and every time I can’t find something I switch to Google and find the answer right away.

Bing seems to surface a lot more unrelated or spam my websites at the top of the results.

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